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Sunday, May 25, 2008

What is wrong with your head?

Depigmentation of the substantia nigra and locus ceruleus = Parkinson's
Lewy bodies
Diffuse cortical atrophy with relative sparing of primary motor and sensory areas = Alzheimer's
Beta Amyloid plaques, neurofibullary tangles

Selective frontal and temporal lobe atrophy, gliosis, neuronal loss, swollen neurons = Pick Disease
Pick Bodies (silver staining cytoplasmic inclusions)

Striking degeneration of the caudate nucleus = Huntington's (autosomal Dominant)

Widespread neuronal loss and gliosis in subcortical areas = Supranuclear Palsy

Rabies = Negri bodies

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